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A scathing exploration into the heart of Silicon Valley, laying bare the greed, hubris, and retrograde politics of an industry that aspires to radically transform society for its own benefit At the height of the startup boom, journalist Corey Pein set out for Silicon Valley with little more than a smartphone and his wits. His goal: to learn how such an overhyped industry could possibly sustain itself as long as it has. Determined to cut through the clichés of big tech — the relentless optimism, the incessant repetition of vacuous buzzwords — Pein decided that he would need to take an approach as unorthodox as the companies he would soon be covering. To truly understand the delirious reality of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, he knew, he would have to inhabit that perspective — he would have to become an entrepreneur. Thus he begins his journey — skulking through gimmicky tech conferences, pitching his over-the-top business ideas to investors, and interviewing a cast of outrageous characters: cyborgs and con artists, Teamsters and transhumanists, jittery hackers and naive upstart programmers whose entire lives are managed by their employers — who work endlessly and obediently, never

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Author

Corey Pein

Publisher

Scribe

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781627794855

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Economics, Management, Political Science

Rating

4.2 / 5 (157 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14